Hello fellow bibliophiles! I hope all is well with you, but I think I might just dive head-first into the book review this week, if you do not mind (although I suppose that even if you did mind, I'm doing it anyways. My apologies.)Rick Riordan is acclaimed by many to be a great author, and I agree with that. The way he writes under different personalities is really interesting, as well as very realistic, despite it being a book about Egyptian magic and gods. He does not take anything to the point of overboard, just uses subtle hints from time to time - which is more to my liking, I think. Both of the main characters have people they seem interested in (even if only minorly), and he does not make me feel as though I am going to barf up grossly chunky bits of early teenage romance. (If you want to understand this better, please check out one of my prior reviews, Half Brother by Kenneth Oppel, which although I liked it, was a little overboard on the romance level of things.)This is seriously a good book - I could just let my brain relax with it, which, although some might argue otherwise, I feel to be a good thing, every once in a while.

Do you remember when Gangnam Style was the only style, when no one knew what the fox says (and some still don't, apparently), and when the only thing that people read were boring books about the different types of grey? Oh yeah, that was just over the last few years. Anyways, today I am introducing a new thing, Flashback Sunday, where every once in a while I share from the days that I wrote book reviews for a small school publication. (I will say, I loved the book so much that I had no clue what to say at the end, I had endless praises that I did not want to flood the review with, so it ends somewhat abruptly. And yes, I do think you need to steal this book from whoever you see has it.)Anyways, here is a book review from the days gone by, I hope you like it. I must admit – whenever I see a book that has anything to do with dragons, I run and take cover. But something about Seraphina intrigued me. Once I started reading I was immediately sucked in. Rachel Hartman writes with such a strong voice, and really, I could probably write endless praises for this book all day. But I won’t.Seraphina is a book about how we all have secrets that need to be hidden – but to what extent, and for what price? In a medieval kingdom called Goredd, the townsfolk are nearing the 40th anniversary of a peace treaty between dragons and humans – but that does not mean everyone has accepted it.

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Jason and Elizabeth are brother and sister book addicts who somehow manage to get along (most of the time). They reside in Canada with their dog Becky, and one (slightly insane) fly-hunting cat named Fish. Oh. And their parents. They're important too.